Testimonies

from "Living Israel" rehabilitation centre


Maria Age: 33 “ Of course marijuana was an integral part of what we then called „freedom”. ”	Benjamin “ In time I found myself in prisons in Germany, Switzerland and Finland. ”

Yulia Vatkovski Age: 28 “ I started to go to parties, drank a lot of alcohol and took ecstasy. ”	Denis “ Now God has changed everything and being in courts is part of my service. ”

Pavel Cogan “ I found therein my suicide note which I’d written in sheer agony. ”	Slava Ignatenko Age: 34 “ 17 years of hard drug addiction and 5 years in prison, totally ruined my life. ”

Michael "The French" Age: 34 “ 5 times I served time in prisons in Russia, Germany and Switzerland.”	Natalia “ It was at time when my life was already over, I was very ill.”

Michael Sluzkiy "Internet" “ Up to this day lies in the cemetery in Kiryat Gat my tomb ”	Misha Segal "Meek" 36 years old “ Once I jumped under a truck's wheels, but as a result I was beaten by the truck driver instead.”

Bondarenko Leonid 37 years old “ My wife had divorced me, and I was out in the street without means of substance, and without a purpose. ”	Andrey Butenko 38 years old “ I tried to stay "clean" by my own human efforts, but I couldn't and I fell again. ”

Andrey Nenashev 33 years old “ The criminal environment had kind of romance, and I was attractived to it. ”	Valera Ermakov “ I felt like a human wreck, alcohol, and the drugs took everything out of my life, what I was needing to live. ”

Gennady 39 years old “ During the past 13 years, I was seriously addicted, and found myself five times at court. With 15 years sitting in jail, I was isolated nearly half of my life.”	Maxim 26 years old “ After having shot an overdose of heroin in 2004 in Eilat, I was delivered to the hospital where they diagnosed me as clinically dead. ”

Rakhamimov Modest “ The Lord stopped me from going straight to hell. ”	Boris Buksht “ “But where do you live?”, exclaimed my friend.”

Igor Epshtein 24 years old “ After many unsuccessful attempts with drugs, I decided to come to the rehab center in Israel.”	Anja 17 years old “ At the age of 14 I started taking hard drugs....”